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Category Archives: new york

HANNA LIDEN

Friday, May 18, 2012

In Hanna Liden’s Ghost Town, a wonderful new series of  photographs now on view at Maccarone, everything is covered with some kind of downtown detritus. Faces are masked in Have A Nice Day plastic bags, bodies clothed Canal Street Fuck You t-shirts, flowers painted Terrence Koh Black, classical busts etched with graffiti. Even the images [...]

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OF MICE AND MEN

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Last night our cover star Ryan McGinley’s latest exhibition opened in New York, with entirely new work that seems to be leading away even further from his road trip pieces that he became famous for, into a more abstract and graphic, if still equally colourful realm entirely his own.
Ryan McGinley: Grids / Animals
May 2nd – [...]

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TALDANS IN JUDSON CHURCH

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

A performance by the Turkish contemporary dance company Taldans in Judson Church New York City where the legendary Judson Dance Theater was performing in 1960s.

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Paul Graham: The Present

Sunday, March 18, 2012

One of the best shows currently up in Chelsea, Paul Graham: The Present is a thrilling, engaging, and slightly frightening mediation on how we understand and experience day-to-day life in the city. Many pairs are hung near the floor of the gallery, which explicitly inserts the viewer into the scene pictured, and challenges the viewer [...]

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LLIK YOUR IDOLS

Saturday, March 10, 2012

“Llik your Idols is an intimate survey of a VERY particular time in downtown NYC – the mid 1980s – when the fallout of a decrepit city manifested itself through the psyches of young and wild artists, musicians and filmmakers banging into each other in the scum drenched streets. Sex, drugs, violence and rock’n’roll took [...]

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CONTINENTAL DRIFT

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Last June, we talked to artists Colin Snapp and Daniel Turner about how their solo practices have evolved out of their collaborative outfit Jules Marquis. It seems they’ve been on quite a roll since then. Last September, Turner had a solo show at the Journal Gallery, where he showed site-specific works that expanded on his [...]

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MILLENIUM MAGAZINES

Monday, February 20, 2012

Today opens a rather epic survey on independent publishing in the wise halls of the MoMA Library in New York, accumulating more than 100 magazines on art and design from all over the world – and of course, also from Berlin, including our humble little adventure in print.
Here is what they have to say about [...]

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YOU KILLED ME FIRST

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Nightmarish scenarios of violence, dramatic states of mind, and perverse sexual abysses – the films of the Cinema of Transgression that were consciously aimed at shock, provocation, and confrontation, bear witness to an extraordinary radicality. In the 1980s a group of filmmakers from the Lower East Side in New York went on a collision course [...]

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MURDER IS MY BUSINESS

Monday, January 23, 2012

Weegee is having quite a moment. Right on the heels of the new West Coast Weegee exhibition Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles, the International Center of Photography has put up a new show called Weegee: Murder is My Business. Focusing on the pioneering photographer’s most productive decade, between 1935 and 1946, Murder is My [...]

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HELEN FRANKENTHALER, 1928-2011

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Helen Frankenthaler, second-generation Abstract Expressionist and painterly innovator, has passed away. After studying art at Bennington College, Frankenthaler met and dated the preeminent modernist critic Clement Greenberg, and found her way into the burgeoning New York art scene of the 1950s. She met leading artists Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and her future [...]

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